Charlotte Maria Tucker
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Charlotte Maria Tucker English
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, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England), was born near Barnet
, Middlesex
, the daughter of Henry St George Tucker (1771–1851), a distinguished official of the British East India Company
. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India
to engage in missionary work, and died at Amritsar
on the 2nd of December 1893.
England
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author
Author
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, who wrote under the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (a Lady of England), was born near Barnet
Barnet
High Barnet or Chipping Barnet is a place in the London Borough of Barnet, North London, England. It is a suburban development built around a twelfth-century settlement and is located north north-west of Charing Cross. Its name is often abbreviated to Barnet, which is also the name of the London...
, Middlesex
Middlesex
Middlesex is one of the historic counties of England and the second smallest by area. The low-lying county contained the wealthy and politically independent City of London on its southern boundary and was dominated by it from a very early time...
, the daughter of Henry St George Tucker (1771–1851), a distinguished official of the British East India Company
British East India Company
The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
. From 1852 till her death she wrote many stories for children, most of them allegories with an obvious moral, and devoted the proceeds to charity. In 1875 she left England for India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
to engage in missionary work, and died at Amritsar
Amritsar
Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...
on the 2nd of December 1893.
Further reading
- Agnes GiberneAgnes GiberneAgnes Giberne was a prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people....
, A Lady of England. The life and letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker (1895)